My final roll of film out of San Antonio was Kodak Ektachrome on 35mm, shot with my Leica M4-P and a Hexanon 28mm f/2.8 lens. These photos are from the missions on the outskirts of San Antonio, which have a complicated history to say the least. We spent an afternoon visiting each one, since no Bouie family vacation is complete without a history detour.
The next set of rolls are also from San Antonio. The first photos are from a little aviation museum on the outskirts of the city. I had a lot of fun, but I think the kids were a little bored. But hey! They’re kids, they’re supposed to be bored sometimes. The rest of the frames were taken around downtown San Antonio, during a long walk I took one morning. The film is Ilford XP2 Super and the camera was a Mamiya 6 rangefinder.
The next six rolls or so will come from the spring break trip we took to San Antonio in April. It was a great time — lovely city! — and I was able to go through most of the film I brought. These photos are from the botanical gardens as well as downtown San Antonio. They are Kodak Gold shot with a Mamiya 6. There was a light leak hence the bright marks on each photo. I have since gotten the camera repaired!
My 11th roll of the year was a roll of Kodak Portra 400 that I shot on a long walk up and around Mt. Robidoux in Riverside, California. I was in the area to give a talk, and I gave myself a bit of time to do some exploration. I used my Leica M4-P and the M-Hexanon 50mm lens.
These photos are from a roll of…Kodak Tri-X(?) that I took during a trip down to southern California, partly in Los Angeles and partly in Riverside. One theme of this series is that I have gotten pretty ruthless about what I keep, and so from a roll of 36 frames — and probably 20 separate scenes — I have four photos. I…do not want to think about how much money I spend on this hobby.
In the interest of trying to use the film I have stockpiled, I brought a couple rolls with me to the “No Kings” protest in Charlottesville, Va. earlier this year. I used the Mamiya 6 and a 150mm telephoto lens (equivalent to 90mm on a 35mm camera). Out of 24 frames I had about 4 that were good enough to keep. (Although if I were being exceptionally strict with myself I would have only kept 1 or 2 photos but then, where’s the fun in that?)
These photos are from two rolls of 35mm film that I shot throughout the first few months of the year. The issue is that they weren’t shot sequentially, meaning that I have frames from as early as January and as late as April. But I finished them in April and so that’s where they fall on the list. I shot these on my Leica M4-P using one lens or another from my set of M-Hexanon lenses, produced by Konica for its electronic rangefinder back in the early 2000s. Photos were taken in Charlottesville and New Orleans.
I went through a bit of a rut earlier in the year and so this roll has just three keepers and even these are…not great. But I still have them just to mark where I was in February: Bowdoin College and Miami.
I took these photos during a brief stop in New Orleans for an event. I spent a day wandering and you can more or less trace my route from the scenes I have here.
Seen on US-29 passing through Madison, Va.
Shot with a Panasonic LX10 point and shoot. Edited in Lightroom.